Tag: Anime

  • Anime Explorations Episode 8: JoJo Part 1 – Phantom Blood + Battle Tendency

    Anime Explorations Episode 8: JoJo Part 1 – Phantom Blood + Battle Tendency

    This month we’re beginning the Summer of Jojo with JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Season 1: Phantom Blood/Battle Tendency.

  • Anime Explorations Episode 7: Bocchi The Rock

    Anime Explorations Episode 7: Bocchi The Rock

    This month we’re doing a quick rundown of some of the shows airing in the Spring 2023 season, before we discuss Bocchi! The Rock – a music comedy series about dealing with social anxiety.

  • Spy Classroom: Anime Review

    Spy Classroom: Anime Review

    I’m not entirely sure if Spy Classroom knows what it wants to be. On the one hand, it’s an anime series about a bunch of (cute) teen girl spies going on missions in an alternate-history Europe – in this case, one inspired by Europe in between the World Wars, and before the rise of Fascism.

  • Ippon! Again: Anime Review

    Ippon! Again: Anime Review

    I’m a fan of Naoki Urasawa, and one of his manga that got him on peoples’ radar (and the anime adaptation that came with it) was Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl. That series was a more conventional sports anime – closer to something like Hajime No Ippo/Fighting Spirit. This year, we got what I believe

  • My Hero Academia Season 6: Anime Review

    My Hero Academia Season 6: Anime Review

    We’re in the Endgame now – or rather My Hero Academia is.

  • Anime Review: In/Spectre Season 2

    Anime Review: In/Spectre Season 2

    The second season of In/Spectre is less dominated by a single mystery for the entire story, and is instead broken up into a series of smaller mysteries – generally not one-and-done cases, as they usually take a few episodes to resolve. However, it does mean that if the Steel Lady Nanase mystery seemed to drag

  • Anime Review: Trigun Stampede

    Anime Review: Trigun Stampede

    Continuing with the theme of revivals of classic anime franchises, the Winter 2023 season saw the return of Trigun, with Trigun: Stampede, from Studio Orange (best known for Land of the Lustrous), doing what is effectively a half-reboot/half-prequel to the original series, with Trigun Stampede.

  • Anime Review: Urusei Yatsura (2022-3)

    Anime Review: Urusei Yatsura (2022-3)

    These past few years have been a time of resurgence for various classic anime & manga franchises – not only with the long-running new adaptation of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, but also with an adaptation of Ushio & Tora, and a sequel to Inuyasha, it only seemed appropriate that someone returned to the manga that put

  • Anime Explorations Episode 6: My Dress-Up Darling

    Anime Explorations Episode 6: My Dress-Up Darling

    This month we’re discussing My Dress-Up Darling – a romantic comedy anime (with some fanservice) all about cosplay, followed up by a discussion about this year’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards and the r/Anime Awards.

  • Thoughts on the 2023 Anime Awards Ceremony

    Thoughts on the 2023 Anime Awards Ceremony

    Crunchyroll has held their 2023 Anime Awards Ceremony – the first one that was in person since the pandemic and the first ever in Japan, and I have some thoughts on the presentation.

  • Anime Review: Girlfriend, Girlfriend

    Anime Review: Girlfriend, Girlfriend

    In honor of White Day, it’s time for some silliness with a bunch of horny idiots.

  • Anime Explorations Episode 5: Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family

    Anime Explorations Episode 5: Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family

    This month, Tora, David, and I kick off the inaugural installment of Fate-uary with a discussion of our background with the franchise, and a look at Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family.

  • Anime Explorations Episode 4: Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 1 + The Blade of Life & Death

    Anime Explorations Episode 4: Thunderbolt Fantasy Season 1 + The Blade of Life & Death

    This month, David, Tora and I are taking a look at the first season & film of Thunderbolt Fantasy for Lunar New Year.

  • Anime Review: Lupin Zero

    On the one hand, Lupin Zero is a show that doesn’t “need” to exist. We’ve had several TV specials and the series A Woman Called Fujiko Mine has covered some of this in the past. Lupin Zero tries to put their own spin on it by making Jigen & Lupin either late-Middle Schoolers or early

  • Anime Review: Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury (S1)

    Anime Review: Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury (S1)

    Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch from Mercury is an excellent example of how to handle shifting the tone of a series incredibly well. The show opens with a prologue episode set several years before the main body of the series, establishing what the Gundams are, and what the Gundam (or GUND-ARM) technology that powers them is

  • 8 Favorite Anime of 2022

    8 Favorite Anime of 2022

    A little bit late, I have a rundown of 8 of my favorite shows from 2022, with two per season.

  • Anime Review: Chainsaw Man

    Anime Review: Chainsaw Man

    Chainsaw Man is a manga series that I’d have to admit that I held off on reading because I’d read some of the early art and thought it was edgelord crap. However, I kept hearing that no, it’s actually that good. So, when the anime adaptation aired, I decided that this was what I needed

  • Anime Review: Spy X Family Cour 2

    Anime Review: Spy X Family Cour 2

    Season 1 of Spy X Family aired as a split cour show – that is, we got 12 episodes, then a break, then the other 12 episodes of this “Season” – so it’s time to get into how the back half of the show turned out.

  • Anime Review: Uzaki Chan Wants To Hang Out Season 2

    Anime Review: Uzaki Chan Wants To Hang Out Season 2

    The first season of Uzaki-Chan wants to hang out was a fun, if kind of standard, sitcom RomCom anime which played into the whole concept of “male character being lightly bullied by a younger female character” which also showed up in “Teasing Master Takagi-San” and in “Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro!” – only this

  • Anime Review: Akiba Maid War

    Anime Review: Akiba Maid War

    Akiba Maid War was a series I came into this season out of curiosity, and which immediately demonstrated it was something that was absolutely my jam. There will be some spoilers in this review

  • Anime Review: Do It Yourself

    Anime Review: Do It Yourself

    When I put Do It Yourself on my watchlist for this month, I was expecting a more generally explanatory anime series – something along the lines of Diary of our Days at the Breakwater something comedic, and explanatory about the subject matter in question (handicrafts in this case) – and chill but not necessarily a

  • Anime Review: Shinobi no Ittoki

    Anime Review: Shinobi no Ittoki

    Shinobi No Ittoki is probably the most mediocre of the anime series that I’ve watched this season. It’s not bad, it’s kind of “mid”

  • Anime Explorations Episode 3: Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)

    Anime Explorations Episode 3: Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)

    This month, for Christmas, David, Tora, & I are taking a look at the 1979 Sanrio stop-motion animated film “Nutcracker Fantasy”.

  • Anime Review: Godzilla Singular Point

    Anime Review: Godzilla Singular Point

    2022 is the first year that I have finally decided to knuckle down and get involved with a thing I’d been meaning to do for quite some time. Well, two things – one being doing a convention panel, the other being taking part in Anime Secret Santa. I’ve been a long-time listener of the Reverse